"The study is divided into three parts, the first of which describes the Islamic State’s publishing house, Maktabat al-Himma, and its activities and offers a rough chronology of when the group published various works. The second part examines the group’s classroom textbooks, drawing comparisons with the Saudi religious curriculum and highlighting the Islamic State’s unique program of “ISization” that makes them especially lethal. The paper’s third part features a deep dive into other literature produced by the group, including book-length editions, manuals of ritual observance, and instructions to fighters, as well as shorter pamphlets. The paper closes with a series of concluding observations and policy recommendations, as well as appendices that include a list of the works surveyed, translations by the author of selections from the classroom textbooks, images of textbook covers, and a glossary of terminology IS uses in its literature." (Executive summary, page xi)
1 Background, 2
2 Textbooks and the Classroom, 8
3 Guidance Literature: An Islamic State Restates Islam, 25
4 Conclusions and Policy Recommendations, 32
APPENDICES
A Titles Examined, 34
B Selected Passages from Textbooks, 51
C Selected Textbook Covers, 60
D Glossary, 62